David Dinkins and New York City politics: race, images, and the media

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (09) ◽  
pp. 44-5313-44-5313
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The Media

Unilever's Mission for Vitality

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
David Austen-Smith ◽  
Adam Galinsky ◽  
Katherine H. Chung ◽  
Christy LaVanway
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Consumer Awareness ◽  
Portfolio Company ◽  
The Media ◽  
A Company ◽  
Conflicting Messages

Dove and Axe were two highly successful brands owned by Unilever, a portfolio company. Dove was a female-oriented beauty product brand that exhorted “real beauty” and not the unachievable standards that the media portrayed. In contrast, Axe was a brand that purportedly “gives men the edge in the mating game.”□ Their risqué commercials always portrayed the supermodel-type beauty ideal that Dove was trying to change. Unilever had always been a company of brands where the consumer knew the brands but not the company, but recently there had been the idea to unify the company with an umbrella mission for all of its brands. This would turn Unilever into a company with brands, potentially increasing consumer awareness and encourage cross-purchases between the different brands. However, this raised questions about the conflicting messages between the brands' marketing campaigns, most notably between Unilever's two powerhouse brands, Dove and Axe. The case begins with COO Alan Jope anticipating an upcoming press meeting in New York City to discuss Unilever's current (i.e., 2005) performance and announce Unilever's decision to create an umbrella mission statement for the company. This case focuses on the central question of whether or not consistency between brand messages is necessary or inherently problematic.The Unilever's Mission for Vitality case was created to help students and managers develop an appreciation for how the values underlying a marketing campaign can affect and alter an organization's culture. The case focuses on how two products and marketing campaigns that express conflicting underlying values (as reflected in the Dove Real Beauty and the Axe Effect campaigns) within the same corporation can give rise to a number of unintended organizational and marketing complications.

Selling Pre-K: Media, Politics, and Policy in the Case of Universal Prekindergarten in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine K. Delaney ◽  
Susan B. Neuman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
York City ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
State Budget ◽  
The Media

Background/Context Educational policy is informed by multiple stakeholders and actors. Research has focused on understanding how policy decisions are informed and made, as well as how teachers and school leaders take up these policies in their practice. However, few researchers have examined how educational policy is framed for the larger public and voting electorate through media coverage and how the use of rhetorical devices can shape the public's understandings of policies, practices, and promised outcomes. Publicly funded prekindergarten is an emerging movement in many states. Purpose/Objective This research examined how local and national media framed the scale-up of publicly funded, Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) in the largest school district in the country: New York City. Across two years, including a mayoral primary, mayoral election, and high-profile state budget negotiations, we examine how six media outlets used rhetoric to create specific narratives about the goals, outcomes, and possibilities of UPK that resonated with voters. Research Design Qualitative methods were used to examine the content of six national and local media sources. Over 640 sources were analyzed to address the questions central to this study. Utilizing our theoretical framework of rhetorical policy analysis, as well as emergent coding, we cross-analyzed multiple themes, working to identify consistent and dominant narratives across the media coverage. Findings Findings reveal that four main narratives dominated the media coverage of the scale-up of pre-K in New York City. These narratives used emotional rhetoric to frame UPK in ways that detracted from meaningful, research-informed information about how to successfully support the care and learning of young children. Conclusions/Recommendations The role of media in framing educational policy and practice for the public is growing. Researchers and policy makers must be mindful of how the rhetorical approaches utilized by the media can and will inform the public's understanding of public education policy.

Attitudes toward the Homeless in two New York City Metropolitan Samples

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 90-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Benedict ◽  
Jeffrey S. Shaw ◽  
Leanne G. Rivlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Homeless Persons ◽  
Demographic Differences ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Attitude Measures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Composite Variables

Attitude questionnaires were administered to a sample of New York City residents and a suburban sample who worked in New York City (n = 112 for each). While overall attitudes toward the homeless were sympathetic, feelings about a shelter for the homeless in one's neighborhood were not favorable. Feelings toward a shelter were unfavorable regardless of whether the shelter was to serve “over 20” or “up to 10” homeless persons. Despite demographic differences on income, age, time living in the New York City area and education, the two samples differed significantly on only two responses related to attitudes or to experiences with the homeless. New York City residents rated their attitudes toward the elderly as more sympathetic than did suburban residents (p .05), though both samples reported very favorable attitudes. Also, a greater proportion of the New York City residents, 76.7%, as opposed to 52.8% for suburban residents, stated that the situation of the homeless had gotten worse in the past few years (p .001). To examine the relationships between attitude responses and other variables, factor analyses were carried out for each sample on those variables that correlated significantly with the attitude measures. Composite variables based on these factors revealed that, for both New York City and suburban residents, significantly more favorable attitudes were obtained for those respondents who had given money to the homeless and who had used the media and their own reading in forming an opinion about the homeless.

Attitudes toward the Homeless in Two New York City Metropolitan Samples

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 90-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Benedict ◽  
Jeffrey S. Shaw ◽  
Leanne G. Rivlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Homeless Persons ◽  
Demographic Differences ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Attitude Measures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Composite Variables

Attitude questionnaires were administered to a sample of New York City residents and a suburban sample who worked in New York City (n = 112 for each). While overall attitudes toward the homeless were sympathetic, feelings about a shelter for the homeless in one's neighborhood were not favorable. Feelings toward a shelter were unfavorable regardless of whether the shelter was to serve “over 20” or “up to 10” homeless persons. Despite demographic differences on income, age, time living in the New York City area and education, the two samples differed significantly on only two responses related to attitudes or to experiences with the homeless. New York City residents rated their attitudes toward the elderly as more sympathetic than did suburban residents (p <. 05), though both samples reported very favorable attitudes. Also, a greater proportion of the New York City residents, 76.7%, as opposed to 52.8% for suburban residents, stated that the situation of the homeless had gotten worse in the past few years (p <. 001). To examine the relationships between attitude responses and other variables, factor analyses were carried out for each sample on those variables that correlated significantly with the attitude measures. Composite variables based on these factors revealed that, for both New York City and suburban residents, significantly more favorable attitudes were obtained for those respondents who had given money to the homeless and who had used the media and their own reading in forming an opinion about the homeless.

Fast-Day Sermon

2012 ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Gershom Mendes Seixas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Full Text ◽  
War Of 1812 ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government

This chapter turns to the sermon of Gershom Mendes Seixas during the War of 1812. This sermon is the only known extant Jewish preaching text responding to any American war before 1861, delivered before the flagship Jewish congregation of the nation, expressing the ideals of loyal support for the government despite its failures and empathetic commitment to fellow citizens in their time of need. As such, it is a text of considerable historical significance. Here, the chapter shows how Seixas's sermon presents a ringing assertion of the responsibility of citizens in a democracy to support their chosen leaders, even (or perhaps especially) when things are not going well. In this context, Seixas read the full text of the resolution of the New York City Common Council declaring the day of ‘fasting, humiliation and prayer’ as it had been publicized in the media.

The Crucial ‘Where’ of Graffiti: A Geographical Analysis of Reactions to Graffiti in New York

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Cresswell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
The Other ◽  
Geographical Analysis ◽  
The Media

This paper is an examination of the reactions to graffiti in New York during the early 1970s. It is argued that the reactions of the media and government present a discourse of disorder, a discourse in which graffiti is presented as a symptom of disorder and thus a threat to the image of New York City and civilization itself. Simultaneously the art establishment reacts to graffiti by (dis)placing it in Manhattan galleries and describing it as creative, ‘primitive’, and valuable. These discourses play an important role in the formation and maintenance of the meaning of a place. Simultaneously the place—New York, the subway, the gallery—plays a role in affecting the nature of the discourses and judgements of the value of graffiti. This case study is framed in the context of a wider discussion of the relation between place and ideology in which it is suggested that each plays a role in structuring the other.

scholarly journals Head Injury in Soccer: From Science to the Field; summary of the head injury summit held in April 2017 in New York City, New York

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (21) ◽  
pp. 1332-1332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot Putukian ◽  
Ruben J Echemendia ◽  
George Chiampas ◽  
Jiri Dvorak ◽  
Bert Mandelbaum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Head Injury ◽  
York City ◽  
Head Injuries ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Head Impacts ◽  
Major League Soccer ◽  
The Media

There has been an increased focus and awareness of head injury and sport-related concussion (SRC) across all sports from the medical and scientific communities, sports organisations, legislators, the media and the general population. Soccer, in particular, has been a focus of attention due to the popularity of the game, the frequency of SRC and the hypothesised effects of repetitive heading of the ball. Major League Soccer, US Soccer and the National Women’s Soccer League jointly hosted a conference entitled, ‘Head Injury in Soccer: From Science to the Field’, on 21–22 April 2017 in New York City, New York. The mission of this conference was to identify, discuss and disseminate evidence-based science related to the findings and conclusions of the fifth International Conference on Concussion in Sport held by the Concussion in Sport Group and apply them to the sport of soccer. In addition, we reviewed information regarding the epidemiology and mechanism of head injuries in soccer at all levels of play, data regarding the biomechanics and effects of repetitive head impacts and other soccer-specific considerations. We discussed how to release the information raised during the summit to key stakeholders including athletes, parents, coaches and healthcare providers. We identified future areas for research and collaboration to enhance the health and safety of soccer (football) players.

New Retail Capital and Neighborhood Change: Boutiques and Gentrification in New York City

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Zukin ◽  
Valerie Trujillo ◽  
Peter Frase ◽  
Danielle Jackson ◽  
Tim Recuber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Chain Stores ◽  
Corporate Capital ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Racial Solidarity ◽  
The Media

Since the 1970s, certain types of upscale restaurants, cafés, and stores have emerged as highly visible signs of gentrification in cities all over the world. Taking Harlem and Williamsburg as field sites, we explore the role of these new stores and services (“boutiques”) as agents of change in New York City through data on changing composition of retail and services, interviews with new store owners, and discursive analysis of print media. Since the 1990s, the share of boutiques, including those owned by small local chains, has dramatically increased, while the share of corporate capital (large chain stores) has increased somewhat, and the share of traditional local stores and services has greatly declined. the media, state, and quasi–public organizations all value boutiques, which they see as symbols and agents of revitalization. Meanwhile, new retail investors—many, in Harlem, from the new black middle class—are actively changing the social class and ethnic character of the neighborhoods. Despite owners’ responsiveness to community identity and racial solidarity, “boutiquing” calls attention to displacement of local retail stores and services on which long–term, lower class residents rely and to the state's failure to take responsibility for their retention, especially in a time of economic crisis.

Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arne De Boever
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Media

Following other critics of the so-called “finance fiction” or “fi-fi” genre, the chapter begins by observing that finance doesn’t play a major role in Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities: It is limited to the pages about a gold-backed bond and the neoliberalization of black power, an issue that Wolfe had already addressed in his earlier “Radical Chic.” Instead, the chapter identifies “psychosis” as a major theme in this contemporary finance fiction. While many critics have focused on racism in the novel, and in some cases on what they perceive to be the racism of the novel (which, in its avowedly all-inclusive representation of New York City privileges the upper-class white perspective), its revisionist reading lays bare what I consider to be the novel’s central drama: how both its white, upper-class protagonist Sherman McCoy and its black, lower-class protagonist Henry Lamb are caught up in psychotic situations created by money, politics, and the media—situations over which they have no control. The chapter ultimately turns to Cristina Alger’s The Darlings as an example of how this is borne out in post-2008 financial fiction.

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